Subject: glossary addition

50. PI:  A Greek letter used to represent the value of a pumpkin shortly after
    Halloween.
 
49. LAMINAR FLOW:  The cardiovascular system of a young sheep.
 
48. LATTICE CONSTANT:  A number used in the equation relating the time of year
    to the quality of a restaurant's salad bar.
 
47. GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION:  The pattern of test answers about which you aren't
    sure and therefore must come up with your best gauss.
 
46. OHMIC CONTACT:  What E.T. was trying to make.(You know:"E.T. phone ohm.. .")
 
45. EARLY VOLTAGE:  Electronics I at 8am.  Also proverbial:  "The early voltage
    gets the current."
 
44. PARASITIC CAPACITANCE:  The amount of blood that a tick or leech can consume
    in one sitting.
 
43. PIPE DREAM:  1)  a classification of Systems projects that describes the
    "do"-ability (or lack thereof) of the proposal in question.  2)  a nightmare
    regarding a Fluids assignment.
 
42. END EFFECTOR:  The person who keeps the nuclear codes for the President in
    case of war.
 
41. TENSILE STRENGTH:  The maximum amount of pressure pulling on both ends that
    a piece of long, thin, metallic christmas decoration can take before it
    breaks.
 
40. SPUTTERING:  1) a method of depositing chemicals on a microchip.  2) a
    method of lecturing that involves small droplets of liquid occasionally
    being projected from the professor's mouth at high velocities.
 
39. EFFECTIVE MASS:  The quantity describing the load of books that you REALLY
     have to take to class every day.
 
38. BANDGAP:  The difference in position between the conductor and the
    percussion section.
 
37. ROTATIONAL VELOCITY:  The rate at which your systems project leaves you
    going in circles.
 
36. ANALOG:  A tree trunk with a positive ionic charge.  The electrical
    opposite of CATALOG, a tree trunk with a negative ionic charge.
 
35. WHITE NOISE:  Testimony by Mark Fuhrman.
 
34. BUBBLE SORT:  A computer program that simulates the way your soda loses
    its fizz.

33. PLANE STRESS:  The physiological symptoms associated with an uncontrollable
    fear of flying.
 
32. ARBITRARY LOGIC:  The method by which the computer decides whether to let
    your program work or not.
 
31. TRADE-OFF MATRIX:  An objective, quantified, numerical defense of your
    subjective, qualified, arbitrary decision.